x = False
tries = 6
def drawgrid():
global tries
# the variable is local so it will give a error by calling it in a function so by making it global it works as long as you add "global variable"
if tries == 6:
print(" _____ \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
"__|__\n")
elif tries == 5:
print(" _____ \n"
" | 0 \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
"__|__\n")
elif tries == 4:
print(" _____ \n"
" | 0 \n"
" | | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
"__|__\n")
elif tries == 3:
print(" _____ \n"
" | 0 \n"
" | |- \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
"__|__\n")
elif tries == 2:
print(" _____ \n"
" | 0 \n"
" | -|-\n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
"__|__\n")
elif tries == 1:
print(" _____ \n"
" | 0 \n"
" | -|-\n"
" | / \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
"__|__\n")
elif tries == 0:
print(" _____ \n"
" | 0 \n"
" | -|-\n"
" | / \ \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
" | \n"
"__|__\n")
def mainLoop():
global tries
print('Hello, please choose a word')
hangWord = input('')
operation4 = len(hangWord)
lettersOfWords =list(hangWord)
#print(lengthOfWord)
while x == False:
print('enter a letter')
letter = input('')
if operation4 == 4:
if letter != lettersOfWords[0] and letter != lettersOfWords[1] and letter != lettersOfWords[2] and letter != lettersOfWords[3]:
print('Try again ')
print('?','?','?','?')
tries -= 1
drawgrid()
print(f'{tries} lifes are left')
elif letter == lettersOfWords[0]:
print(letter[0],'?','?','?')
print('First letter found')
elif letter == lettersOfWords[1]:
print('?',letter[1],'?','?')
print('second letter found')
elif letter == lettersOfWords[2]:
print('?','?',letter[2],'?')
print('Third letter found')
elif letter == lettersOfWords[3]:
print('?','?','?',letter[3])
print('Fourth letter found')
drawgrid()
mainLoop()
I keep getting this error File "c:\Users\Tameem\Advanced HTML CSS Javascript\Python\test.py", line 105, in mainLoop print('?',letter[1],'?','?') IndexError: string index out of range but the word is 4 character longs so the first letter works but all others dont they give the same error. please explain why i got this error and how to fix. i am new to python, i tried to fix it but i dont know how. thank you
CodePudding user response：
Lets say the word is "Hello". lettersOfWords = ['H','e','l','l','o']. So when you print say letter[3] because you guessed the letter 'l', so you are saying "give me the 4th index of the string 'letter'", but letter is a string with only one character, so you get an index error. lettersOfWords[3] does exist though, since the 4th index of that list is 'l'.
CodePudding user response：
remove index from conditions
def mainLoop():
global tries
print('Hello, please choose a word')
hangWord = input('')
operation4 = len(hangWord)
lettersOfWords = list(hangWord)
while not x:
print('enter a letter')
letter = input('')
if operation4 == 4:
if letter != lettersOfWords[0] and letter != lettersOfWords[1] and letter != lettersOfWords[2] and letter != \
lettersOfWords[3]:
print('Try again ')
print('?', '?', '?', '?')
tries -= 1
drawgrid()
print(f'{tries} life are left')
elif letter == lettersOfWords[0]:
print(letter, '?', '?', '?')
print('First letter found')
elif letter == lettersOfWords[1]:
print('?', letter, '?', '?')
print('second letter found')
elif letter == lettersOfWords[2]:
print('?', '?', letter, '?')
print('Third letter found')
elif letter == lettersOfWords[3]:
print('?', '?', '?', letter)
print('Fourth letter found')
CodePudding user response：
As others have mentioned, the issue arises from indexing the incorrect variable. Here is a method that doesn't use indexing which I have taken the liberty of extending to cases other than a 4 character input:
def drawgrid(tries):
if tries == 6:
print(''' _____
|
|
|
|
|
|
__|__''')
elif tries == 5:
print(''' _____
| 0
|
|
|
|
|
__|__''')
elif tries == 4:
print(''' _____
| 0
| |
|
|
|
|
__|__''')
elif tries == 3:
print(''' _____
| 0
| |-
|
|
|
|
__|__''')
elif tries == 2:
print(''' _____
| 0
| -|-
|
|
|
|
__|__''')
elif tries == 1:
print(''' _____
| 0
| -|-
| /
|
|
|
__|__''')
elif tries == 0:
print(r''' _____
| 0
| -|-
| / \
|
|
|
__|__''')
def add_suffix(i):
i = 1
if i == 1:
return str(i) 'st'
elif i == 2:
return str(i) 'nd'
elif i == 3:
return str(i) 'rd'
else:
return str(i) 'th'
def mainLoop(tries=6):
hang_word = input('Hello, please choose a word')
output = ['_' for _ in hang_word]
drawgrid(tries)
while tries:
letter = input('Please enter a letter')
if letter not in hang_word:
print('Try again ')
print(' '.join(i for i in output))
tries -= 1
drawgrid(tries)
print(f'{tries} lives are left')
if not tries:
print('You lose')
elif letter in output:
print(f"You've already guessed {letter}. Try again.")
else:
found = [i for i, char in enumerate(hang_word) if char==letter]
output = [j if i not in found else letter for i, j in enumerate(output)]
if len(found) == 1:
print(f'{add_suffix(*found)} letter found')
else:
print(', '.join(add_suffix(i) for i in found[:-1]) f' and {add_suffix(found[-1])} letters found')
print(' '.join(i for i in output))
if not any(i == '_' for i in output):
print('You win')
break
mainLoop()